The Veteran's bilateral plantar warts and arthritis of the left shoulder are currently rated at 20 percent, which is the maximum schedular rating available for these conditions. The Board has determined that higher ratings are not warranted.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support a finding of new and material evidence to reopen service connection claims or establish direct service connection for the claimed disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Plantar warts, Arthritis of the left shoulder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- August 8, 2017
- Citation
- 1732014
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted increased disability ratings of 30 percent for the service-connected left and right foot disabilities from March 23, 2011 to June 2022.
- Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's petition to reopen his claim for service connection and has determined that he is entitled to service connection for osteoarthritis of the lumbosacral spine with bilateral IVDS, left shoulder arthritis, and right shoulder arthritis. The decision resolves all doubt in favor of the Veteran.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for plantar warts, finding that the evidence shows a diagnosis of plantar warts in both 1970 and 2011 during service. The Board also found that the current plantar warts disability had its onset during service.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for initial compensable ratings for his right and left foot plantar warts, finding that they did not meet the criteria for a compensable rating under Diagnostic Code 7820.
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